Since the fuel salt is liquid, it can be both the fuel (producing the heat) and the coolant (transporting the heat to the power plant). Founded in 2012, Moltex has developed a genuinely new reactor concept which parts ways from the conventional MSR design. The technology can reuse spent fuel from CANDU reactors at Point Lepreau. It is a simple interface to watching Salt's event bus for event tags that match a given pattern and then running one or more commands in response. Stable Salt Reactors - A roadmap to Thorium Adam Owens adamowens@moltexenergy.com Thorium World 28th Nov 2018 1) Activities – Moltex development status 2018 2) Moltex’ approach to Fuel Cycle, and the road to Thorium These sls files then define reactions. The liquid fuel is not mixed with the larger amount of molten salt, but contained in an array of tubes in the middle (red). "There is extensive spent fuel in the USA which could generate larger amounts of clean energy if converted for use in the Moltex Stable Salt Reactor." Moltex Energy's Stable Salt Reactor (SSR) is a conceptual UK reactor design that, like all conventional reactors in operation, relies on convection from static vertical fuel tubes in the core to convey heat to the reactor coolant. Named the “Stable Salt Reactor”, this reactor uses molten salt fuel held in static fuel tubes, rather than conventional ‘pumped circulation’ designs. Protected by worldwide patents, this British invention is expected to reduce engineering complexity and regulatory burden. Essentially, the reactor core of the Stable Salt Reactor is closed cooking pan, only half of it filled with molten salt coolant. – Salts are extremely stable in high radiation & temperature • Molten salt is an ideal reactor material because: • After startup, Load throttles reaction-rate via natural salt expansion with temp • ~30% better thermal efficiency than best PWR/BWR plant • ~10% better than most combustion plants Starting fission with Thorium vs 238 Uranium 2 Energy and Climate Change Conference JULY 2016 Background to Moltex Energy SMR 2016. This system binds sls files to event tags on the master. Energy and Climate Change Conference JULY 2016 The Stable Salt Reactor - Safer, Cleaner and Cheaper SMR 2016 Ian Scott. “The Stable Salt Reactor is a U.K.-developed technology that can produce electricity at a third of the Hinkley-C strike price,” Scott said in an interview at Bloomberg’s office in London. Named the “Stable Salt Reactor”, this reactor uses molten salt fuel held in static fuel tubes, rather than conventional ‘pumped circulation’ designs. The simplicity evolves from the fundamentally superior physics of the reactor. The blue tubes in the outer region are the boiler tubes that take the heat out of the reactor core.
Stable Salt Reactors would be safer than conventional plants, the company argues, because they ditch uranium fuel rods in favor of a type of molten salt that can't react violently to … CHOICE OF MOLTEN SALTS Perhaps the most critical choice facing any designer of molten salt reactors is the salt to use. Contents. This paper describes the preliminary design of this reactor and presents the results of the capital cost estimation process.